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Grit Yorks / Peak, have the midgies started up yet? Hoping the dry weather is effecting them adversely?

Yes the midges are out, and the usual West facing crags are sheltered from the Easterly winds

Agree. Had to run away from Millstone on Saturday night.

Yep, some and like the other chap said with mainly easterlies currently, you need to be at the top to find and respite from them in the last week or two.

There are worse things out and about than midges as well - below was at Birchen Sunday evening, where I got a bit midged also.

Yes, very much. I was riding through clouds of them at stanage shortly before sunset on Saturday. So bad I changed my route from plantation and just kept riding along the top of the edge in the slight breeze.

I saw one top roping Chalkstorm this morning.

Rebel without a right of way.

Never seen any midgies at Yarncliffe and it's been cleaned up this year. 

I'll take the ants and the odd mozzy bite over the alternatives. 

Absolutely teaming with ants round there a couple of weeks ago...

Yes millstone and Lawrencefield are a bit grim

Def lots in the zapple area 

Paul must have been lucky, often, ...not the worst crag but it can be bad, it can even be bad further south on some of the least midge affected grit venues I know.

Scafell was hellish today. They had a good feast on us!

Up in Scotland it didn't seem so bad, so far. I was on Broad Law in the southern part on Sunday, and it was fine. Then clear again on Ben Avon on Monday on the eastern side of the Cairngorms.

We got savaged on ben lomond in bright sunshine walking last weekend up to around midday (probably a mixture of breeze and sunshine that eventually cleared them)

Wilton was fine yesterday as it faces East and was catching a light easterly breeze. All dry on the crag as well and with way less polish than Millstone.

It's Time, for Lime!

Stanage Popular is unfortunately swarmed by them!